Keep meaning to replay Codename: Droid. Is like a Teutonic Metroid.

First system was an Acorn Electron. Never heard of it? No, most people haven't, but you all probably have a descendent of my first computer in your pocket right now as Acorn morphed into ARM. Take that Spectrum/Commodore/Amstrad owners.

Games included PAC-Man, Frogger, some Doctor Who game and the cream of the crop: Defender.

How did I feel about it? Well, I'm an active member of a video games forum nearly 3 decades later so I must have been quite taken with it.

C=First was an Atari but too young to remember anything but some Cookie Monster Pac Man rip off. Then a Commodore 64 with a snooker game I played for hours.

First 'love' was a Mega Drive.

Skondo wrote:

Atari 2600. Similar to the image posted by Oli, but it had the independent difficulty switches. I have very fond memeories of the machine, but really wouldn't want to go back and play anything now. Never had that many games for it, but my most played was probably Kaboom!, Combat or Skiing. I remember playing River Raid, Frogger, Adventure, Empire Strikes Back, Pole Position and Pac Man, but many of these games were borrowed. I thought Pac Man was great at the time.

I eventually sold it and put the money towards a Spectrum Plus. My first game for this was Knight Lore.

Same. Kaboom was fucking brilliant. Combat was initially my most played. Pac Man was arse, Mouse Trap however was ok.

I also upgraded to a Speccy though it was the rubber key variety which I killed quite quickly by pulling the fucking joystick adapter (Kempston?) out of the back whilst it was switched on. First game I played was Chequered Flag which was crap.

@Pablo I've still got a BBC Micro set up in my loft somewhere.

Edit: I may actually of had a Vic 20 before the Speccy thinking about it. Fave game was Rockman by Mastertronic.

Commodore vic20 and a book to programme a pong game.

SYNTAX ERROR!

Amstrad CPC 464 and the Famous Five game was the best "slap uncle Quentin"

That would have bought 10 Apple shares in 1990 which this summer would have been worth £7,000

Chin up!

My first system was a Gamecube, even though I hate to admit it. My parents simply refused to buy me a console because they knew I'd get hooked. We owned a stationery shop at the time and they had this Sonic cabinet which all the locals used to come over to ogle at while I played it. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I had to wait till my first wages came in when I was 16.  To think of all the tables I waited on just to get my hands on that Gamecube (+ Windwaker) while I should have been getting myself laid makes me weep. 

Fondest memory: Probably playing Super Mario Sunshine. My mate and I had this pass the pad setup and it worked pretty well. He'd been working in a pastry shop for a few years and for some reason this icing-sugary smell hung around him wherever he went. Complimented the game's visuals nicely.

First system I used was a big Unix box with a green/black screen, which I played snake on, closely followed by a multi-game Pong clone (a different version of the one davyK posted, no gun). First system which I personally had was an Amstrad-made 8086 PC. Here's a selection of games I played on it:

Mach3 (digitised sound, OMG!), Startquake, Space Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry (as a pre-teen, don't ask me), Galactix (the adventure, not the shooter)...

pabloamigo wrote:

... summat with a dood on a motorbike jumping over stuff as you scrolled left to right ...

Dare Devil Dennish?

BBC was mine first too, with that, Snapper, Hopper, Frak, Codename : Droid etc.
First games-thing was the gameboy
First proper console was a SNES

Still got them all somewhere, in varying state of usability...

EvilRedEye wrote:

You people are despicably old.

That's what I was thinking. The first system I ever had was a Sega GameGear. The first I bought myself was an Nintendo64. I blew everything I'd earned from my paper round on the £99 one with GoldenEye. My Mum was not happy.

acemuzzy wrote:

pabloamigo wrote:

... summat with a dood on a motorbike jumping over stuff as you scrolled left to right ...

Dare Devil Dennis

That's the fellow.

My first computer computer was an Acorn 3000 and I emulated the BBC Micro on it and laughed, laughed at how primitive your childhoods were.

I may have entered the workforce at a time of economic ruin and have no future, but I had Flare, you cunts.

EvilRedEye wrote:

My first computer computer was an Acorn 3000 and I emulated the BBC Micro on it and laughed, laughed at how primitive your childhoods were. I may have entered the workforce at a time of economic ruin and have no future, but I had Flare, you cunts.

You weren't around when the arcade was king. You have my pity young 'un. Nothing will ever replace the experience of a full-on arcade in the early-to-mid 80's. I miss it terribly.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Even if I'd been born in time for the in the early-to-mid 80s I still wouldn't have been around when the arcade was king because I live in a poxy little shithole with nothing of interest.

That's a prime spot for an arcade, that is. Why do you think they still survive in British seaside towns?